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Install a new Ruby with rbenv on Mac OS (and make yourself a superhero)

If you're doing stuff with Ruby on a Mac, e.g. installling Jekyll or something, by default you'll end up having to use the sudo command to do stuff, since the permission to modify the default config is not available to your user account.

This sucks and should be avoided. Here's how to fix that.

Installing a new Ruby

To make this better, we are going install a new, custom Ruby. This used to be a big, scary thing, but thanks to the awesome tools Homebrew and rbenv, it's a snap.*

A word of warning: you will have to use Terminal to install this stuff. If you are uncomfortable with text, words, and doing stuff with your computer beyond pointing and hoping, this may not work well for you. But if that's the case, I'm not sure why you were trying to use Ruby in the first place.

Install MySQL on macOS Sierra

This procedure explains how to install MySQL using Homebrew on macOS Sierra 10.12

Install Homebrew

Installing Homebrew is effortless, open Terminal and enter :
$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Note: Homebrew will download and install Command Line Tools for Xcode 8.0 as part of the installation process.

Install MySQL

At this time of writing, Homebrew has MySQL version 5.7.15 as default formulae in its main repository :

Install pathogen and use a proper directory structure

cd
mkdir -p .vim/{autoload,colors,syntax,plugin,spell,config}
mv .vimrc .vim/vimrc
ln -s .vim/vimrc .vimrc
cd ~/.vim
git clone https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen.git pathogen
cd autoload

	{
	"basics": {
	"name": "Thomas Davis",
	"label": "Web Developer",
	"summary": "I’m a full stack web developer who loves working with open source technology. I work best at planning the architecture of web applications and their development life cycles. I also love to get the community involved and have had much experience with building and organizing large open source groups. Specialties: React, Redux, Javascript - Full stack developer with lots of experience in lots of stuff.",
	"website": "https://ajaxdavis.com",
	"email": "[email protected]",
	"location": {
	"city": "Melbourne",
	"countryCode": "AU"

	# You don't need Fog in Ruby or some other library to upload to S3 -- shell works perfectly fine
	# This is how I upload my new Sol Trader builds (http://soltrader.net)
	# Based on a modified script from here: http://tmont.com/blargh/2014/1/uploading-to-s3-in-bash

	S3KEY="my aws key"
	S3SECRET="my aws secret" # pass these in

	function putS3
	{
	path=$1